For Colored Nerds: Why Brittany wants to be a bad Black mom

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Recently, host Brittany Luse has found herself curious about motherhood. As she's thought about the kind of mom she might be, she looked for models in film and TV – and found that there's little room for mothers, and Black moms in particular, to be anything but excellent. From Brittany's previous podcast, For Colored Nerds, a discussion with Eric Eddings about motherhood and misbehaving, and why less than perfect is more than enough.

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0:00.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.4	I'm Brittany Luce.
0:04.4	And today I'm bringing you something special, a conversation between me and my last
0:12.4	co-host.
0:13.4	You see, for those of you just getting to know me, I've been in the game for a minute.
0:18.2	And for many, many years, I co-hosted podcasts with one of my closest friends, Eric Eddings.
0:24.1	Most recently, we had a show called For Colored Nerds, which is what you're about to hear
0:28.3	in three, two, one.
0:31.3	So, Eric.
0:33.3	Yes.
0:34.3	I have a confession to make.
0:35.8	Okay.
0:36.8	What is that confession?
0:37.8	I am ready to admit to the world that I have finally become mom curious.
0:46.0	Wow.
0:47.0	Okay.
0:48.0	So, that, for us, this is a big deal.
0:50.4	I, you know, this is a big deal.
0:52.8	But what do you say that?
0:53.8	I mean, as someone who has tried to push you toward a parent.
0:58.3	I mean, I'm just trying to make sure that I'm not expecting to be a parent.
0:59.3	Just to clarify this, for those of you who aren't privy to our private conversations,
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